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#501 Abyss

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Posted 22 October 2010 - 03:34 PM

JMS' Midnight Nation.

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Posted 22 October 2010 - 05:27 PM

Marvel Zombies is really quite stupid.

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Posted 22 October 2010 - 05:38 PM

[troll]All zombie comics are stupid.[/troll]

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Posted 22 October 2010 - 05:40 PM

That's not true. Some are just offensively retarded. I'm looking at you, Crossed.

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Posted 22 October 2010 - 05:53 PM

RodeoRanch, on 22 October 2010 - 05:27 PM, said:

Marvel Zombies is really quite stupid.

Thta's sort of the point... grab Kirkman, give him the marvel Universe to play with, make it dumb, and the fanboys will buy, OH how they will buy.

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Posted 22 October 2010 - 05:55 PM

I borrowed the first and second trades from a friend and I'm just not feeling it. I'm not a huge Marvel fan so maybe that's the problem.

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Posted 22 October 2010 - 08:46 PM

Curse you, Abyss! Now my review for Gyo is completely ignored

And it's way worthier than zombie comics!

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Posted 22 October 2010 - 08:55 PM

I got the latest edition of Batman and Robin today. Bruce Wayne is back! And how....

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Posted 25 October 2010 - 03:12 PM

Roland_85, on 22 October 2010 - 08:46 PM, said:

Curse you, Abyss! Now my review for Gyo is completely ignored

And it's way worthier than zombie comics!

I read your review and will be keeping an eye open for these now.

stone monkey, on 22 October 2010 - 08:55 PM, said:

I got the latest edition of Batman and Robin today. Bruce Wayne is back! And how....

Captain America beat him to it.

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Posted 25 October 2010 - 03:23 PM

Gyo is plenty disturbing (as is the Enigma of Amigara Fault that's often collected with it, DRR DRR DRR) but I still prefer Uzimaki (or however it's spelt, the spirals one). I think Darkwatch should read both of those before making a final decision on the mangos.

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Posted 25 October 2010 - 07:19 PM

Illuyankas, on 25 October 2010 - 03:23 PM, said:

MANGA! NOT COMICS! MANGA!

NONONO! NOGOOD!

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Posted 25 October 2010 - 10:13 PM

Are you a comic book fan who hates Manga? Or a Manga fan who objects to them being referred to as comics? Or just being overly pedantic...?

Sequential panels of static artwork designed to tell some sort of story with or without speech, captions and/or sound effects; Manga just happen to be the Japanese ones, like Manhwa are the Korean ones and Manhua are the Chinese ones and Bande Dessinee are the French/Belgian ones. All of them, good, bad or indifferent are, for want of a better term, comics (or graphic storytelling, or whatever...). Getting worked up about the distinction between them all seems a bit pointless to me...

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Posted 26 October 2010 - 04:20 PM

Abyss, on 22 October 2010 - 03:34 PM, said:

JMS' Midnight Nation.

eerie.

Finished. rather clever if predictable. It's interesting to see JMS, known for big massive world/universe wide in scope stories, do something that's really about one man in the weird.

Nicely done story, a bit of a mindfuck. The action isn't really the point but well drawn even so.

Enjoyed. Worth the $.

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Posted 26 October 2010 - 06:37 PM

stone monkey, on 25 October 2010 - 10:13 PM, said:

I don't like manga, but really just being pedantic.

I see them lumped together quite a bit, which I don't really like, since despite being the same type of way to tell the story, they are a completely different style. Kind of like newspaper comics vs comic books.

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Posted 27 October 2010 - 09:30 PM

I agree with you about the stylistic differences; Scott McCloud covers this in a chapter in Understanding Comics, which I found rather fascinating.

I still disagree with making the distinction, though. It strikes me as being similar to saying that novels written in the 1st or 2nd Person are not proper novels, as all proper novels are written in the 3rd Person...

It strikes me as overly picky. But each to their own, I guess.

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Posted 28 October 2010 - 12:54 AM

stone monkey, on 27 October 2010 - 09:30 PM, said:

Same medium, but I consider comics to be the traddtion 10 inch by 7 1/4 inch (with some variation depends on what age).

I also consider newpaper comics to be different.

I think a better example would be say, a serialized online novel VS paperback novel. Well the same idea, I still consider them different.

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Posted 28 October 2010 - 01:04 AM

Hang on...? By that definition 2000AD (a UK anthology of six page, A4 strips, some ongoing, some not; that has been published weekly for the last 30-odd years - for the uninitiated) isn't comics. I think we're talking an unusually narrow definition here...